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Cima L, Bussola N, Hassell LA, Kiehl TR, Schukow C, Zerbe N, Munari E, Torresani E, Barbareschi M, Cecchini MJ, Cirielli V, Pagliuca F, Ahsan M, Mohanty SK, Arbitrio E, Hughes G, Mirza KM. Evolving educational landscape in pathology: a comprehensive bibliometric and visual analysis including digital teaching and learning resources. J Clin Pathol 2024; 77:87-95. [PMID: 38123966 DOI: 10.1136/jcp-2023-209203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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AIMS Pathology education is a core component of medical training, and its literature is critical for refining educational modalities. We performed a cross-sectional bibliometric analysis to explore publications on pathology education, focusing on new medical education technologies. METHODS The analysis identified 64 pathology journals and 53 keywords. Relevant articles were collected using a web application, PaperScraper, developed to accelerate literature search. Citation data were collected from multiple sources. Descriptive statistics, with time period analysis, were performed using Microsoft Excel and visualised with Flourish Studio. Two article groups were further investigated with a bibliometric software, VOSViewer, to establish co-authorship and keyword relationships. RESULTS 8946 citations were retrieved from 905 selected articles. Most articles were published in the last decade (447, 49.4%). The top journals were Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (184), Human Pathology (122) and the American Journal of Clinical Pathology (117). The highest number of citations was found for Human Pathology (2120), followed by Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (2098) and American Journal of Clinical Pathology (1142). Authors with different backgrounds had the greatest number of articles and citations. 12 co-authorship, 3 keyword and 8 co-citation clusters were found for the social media/online resources group, 8 co-authorship, 4 keyword and 7 co-citation clusters for the digital pathology/virtual microscopy/mobile technologies group. CONCLUSIONS The analysis revealed a significant increase in publications over time. The emergence of digital teaching and learning resources played a major role in this growth. Overall, these findings underscore the transformative potential of technology in pathology education.
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- Luca Cima
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, APSS, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Pathology, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Corewell Health's Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Pathology, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Pathology Unit, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, APSS, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology Unit, Santa Chiara University Hospital, APSS, Trento, Italy
- CISMED, Centro Interdipartimentale di Scienze Mediche, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Prevention, Legal Medicine Unit, Azienda ULSS 8 Berica, Vicenza, Italy
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- Department of Mental and Physical Health and Preventive Medicine, Pathology Unit, University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Naples, Italy
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- Histopathology Department, Chughtai Institute of Pathology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, CORE Diagnostics, Gurgaon, Delhi, India
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- Office of Medical Student Research, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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Huang A, Pan J, Guo R, La T, Isidro S, Isidro T, Rendely A, Niehaus W, Huang D. Quantifying the dissemination of research in the PM&R journal via alternative metrics. PM R 2023; 15:1673-1677. [PMID: 37873946 DOI: 10.1002/pmrj.13064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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- Austin Huang
- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
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- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
- Spinal Cord Injury Care Line, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Wilson K, Huang C(, Montgomery L, Neylon C, Handcock RN, Ozaygen A, Roelofs A. Changing the Academic Gender Narrative through Open Access. Publications 2022; 10:22. [DOI: 10.3390/publications10030022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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In this article, we ask whether dominant narratives of gender and performance within academic institutions are masking stories that may be both more complex and potentially more hopeful than those which are often told using publication-related data. Influenced by world university rankings, institutions emphasise so-called ‘excellent’ research practices: publish in ‘high impact’, elite subscription journals indexed by the commercial bibliographic databases that inform the various ranking systems. In particular, we ask whether data relating to institutional demographics and open access publications could support a different story about the roles that women are playing as pioneers and practitioners of open scholarship. We review gender bias in scholarly publications and discuss examples of open access research publications that highlight a positive advantage for women. Using analysis of workforce demographics and open research data from our Open Knowledge Initiative project, we explore relationships and correlations between academic gender and open access research output from universities in Australia and the United Kingdom. This opens a conversation about different possibilities and models for exploring research output by gender and changing the dominant narrative of deficit in academic publishing.
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Folaranmi OO, Ibiyeye KM, Odetunde OA, Kerr DA. The Influence of Social Media in Promoting Knowledge Acquisition and Pathology Excellence in Nigeria. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9:906950. [PMID: 35721068 PMCID: PMC9203859 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.906950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The use of social media has evolved from platforms designed primarily for social connection and news sharing to include vibrant virtual academic environments. These platforms allow pathologists from across the globe to interact, exchange knowledge, and collaborate. Pathology in Nigeria, as in much of Africa, faces severe knowledge and practice gaps, with a lack of supporting modern laboratory infrastructure. Social media represents a potentially highly valuable avenue to help address some of these deficiencies. In this Perspective piece, we highlight our experience with the increasing role of social media in providing quality medical education in pathology globally, with an emphasis on how it bridges many of these gaps in Nigeria. Social media sites serve as sources of readily accessible, free, high-quality information to pathologists and trainees through academic discussions, quizzes, journal clubs, and informal consultations. They also provide opportunities for professional networking and research collaborations. Despite the availability and wide reach of these platforms, social media as a tool for advancement of knowledge in pathology is still undersubscribed in this part of the world. Improving awareness of and support for these tools will ideally help mitigate some of the challenges of practicing pathology in low and middle-income settings.
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- Olaleke Oluwasegun Folaranmi
- Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria
- *Correspondence: Olaleke Oluwasegun Folaranmi
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States
- Department of Pathology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, United States
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Coyne P, Kustra E, Woodruff SJ. Let's Talk About It: A Narrative Review of Digital Approaches for Disseminating and Communicating Health Research and Innovation. J Public Health Manag Pract 2022. [PMID: 35703285 DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Best health practice and policy are derived from research, yet the adoption of research findings into health practice and policy continues to lag. Efforts to close this knowledge-to-action gap can be addressed through knowledge translation, which is composed of knowledge synthesis, dissemination, exchange, and application. Although all components warrant investigation, improvements in knowledge dissemination are particularly needed. Specifically, as society continues to evolve and technology becomes increasingly present in everyday life, knowing how to share research findings (with the appropriate audience, using tailored messaging, and through the right digital medium) is an important component towards improved health knowledge translation. As such, this article presents a review of digital presentation formats and communication channels that can be leveraged by health researchers, as well as practitioners and policy makers, for knowledge dissemination of health research. In addition, this article highlights a series of additional factors worth consideration, as well as areas for future direction.
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Amorim CEG, Dasari M, Durgavich L, Hinde K, Kissel M, Lewton KL, Loewen T. Integrative approaches to dispersing science: A case study of March Mammal Madness. Am J Hum Biol 2021; 34 Suppl 1:e23659. [PMID: 34358377 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Revised: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Public engagement is increasingly viewed as an important pillar of scientific scholarship. For early career and established scholars, navigating the mosaic landscape of public education and science communication, noted for rapid "ecological" succession, can be daunting. Moreover, academics are characterized by diverse skills, motivations, values, positionalities, and temperaments that may differentially incline individuals to particular public translation activities. METHODS Here we briefly contextualize engagement activities within a scholarly portfolio, describe the use of one public education program-March Mammal Madness (MMM)- to highlight approaches to science communication, and explore essential elements and practical considerations for creating and sustaining outreach pursuits in tandem with other scholarly activities. RESULTS MMM, an annual simulated tournament of living and fossil animal taxa, has reached hundreds of thousands of learners since 2013. This program has provided a platform to communicate research findings from biology and anthropology and showcase numerous scholars in these fields. MMM has leveraged tournament devices to intentionally address topics of climate change, capitalist environmental degradation, academic sexism, and racist settler-colonialism. The tournament, however, has also perpetuated implicit biases that need disrupting. CONCLUSIONS By embracing reflexive, self-interrogative, and growth attitudes, the tournament organizers iteratively refine and improve this public science education program to better align our activities with our values and goals. Our experiences with MMM suggest that dispersing science is most sustainable when we combine ancestral adaptations for cooperation, community, and storytelling with good-natured competition in the context of shared experiences and shared values.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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Huang CKK, Wilson K, Neylon C, Ozaygen A, Montgomery L, Hosking R. Mapping open knowledge institutions: an exploratory analysis of Australian universities. PeerJ 2021; 9:e11391. [PMID: 34026359 PMCID: PMC8121066 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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While the movement for open research has gained momentum in recent years, there remain concerns about the broader commitment to openness in knowledge production and dissemination. Increasingly, universities are under pressure to transform themselves to engage with the wider community and to be more inclusive. Open knowledge institutions (OKIs) provide a framework that encourages universities to act with the principles of openness at their centre; not only should universities embrace digital open access (OA), but also lead actions in cultivating diversity, equity, transparency and positive changes in society. This leads to questions of whether we can evaluate the progress of OKIs and what are potential indicators for OKIs. As an exploratory study, this article reports on the collection and analysis of a list of potential OKI indicators. Data for these indicators are gathered for 43 Australian universities. The indicators provide high-dimensional and complex signals about university performances. They show evidence of large disparities in characteristics such as Indigenous employment and gender equity, and a preference for repository-mediated OA across Australian universities. We demonstrate use of the OKI evaluation framework to categorise these indicators into three platforms of diversity, communication and coordination. The analysis provides new insights into the Australian open knowledge landscape and ways of mapping different paths of OKIs.
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- Chun-Kai Karl Huang
- Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.,Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.,Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.,Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
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Fathy C, Cehelyk E, Israilevich R, Deiner M, Venkateswaran N, Kim T. When ophthalmology goes virtual amid a pandemic: content analysis of the 2020 #ASCRSVirtualMeeting. J Cataract Refract Surg 2021; 47:563-569. [PMID: 33149042 DOI: 10.1097/j.jcrs.0000000000000463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE To assess the use and impact of the social media platform Twitter during the 2020 ASCRS Virtual Meeting. SETTING Social media platform Twitter.com. DESIGN Retrospective review. METHODS Retrospective analysis of Twitter use during the ASCRS Virtual Meeting in May 2020. All tweets and associated metadata pertaining to the conference were compiled starting from when the virtual meeting was announced (April 8, 2020) to 2 weeks postconference (May 31, 2020). Two coders independently coded all tweets and excluded tweets if they were irrelevant or no longer available. RESULTS A total of 501 tweets were reviewed, of which 48.5% of tweets came from private accounts, 23.1% from academic institutions, 14.4% from ASCRS accounts, 12.4% from industry, and 1.6% from professional organizations; 146 tweets (29.1%) were shared before, 303 tweets (60.5%) during, and 52 tweets (10.4%) after the conference. A total of 315 tweets (62.9%) promoted conference events, 137 tweets (27.3%)) were about research studies, 136 tweets (27.1%) were social posts, 115 tweets (23.0%) were from industry sponsors, 22 tweets (4.4%) were self-promotion, and 5 tweets (1.0%5) were not categorized. Twitter impressions on the ASCRS account increased by 79% in 2020 compared with the 2019 annual meeting. CONCLUSIONS To the author's knowledge, this is the first study to describe how Twitter users engaged with a virtual ophthalmology meeting through social media during the coronavirus pandemic. Findings from this study offer insight into how the ophthalmology community can use social media during conferences and highlight opportunities for networking through social media for both virtual and in-person conferences in the future.
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- Cherie Fathy
- From the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Fathy); Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Cehelyk, Israilevich); University of San Francisco, Department of Ophthalmology, San Francisco, California (Deiner); Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina (Venkateswaran, Kim)
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This review describes how Twitter is currently used by laboratory professionals for education, research, and networking. This platform has a global audience. It enables users to post information publicly, easily, rapidly, and free of charge. The absence of hierarchies enables interactions that may not be feasible offline. Laboratory professionals teach thousands of people using text, images, polls, and videos. Academic discussion flourishes without paywalls. Published research is shared faster than ever before, articles are discussed in online journal clubs, and research collaborations are facilitated. Pathologists network globally and make new friends within and beyond their specialty. Pathology departments and residency programs showcase trainees and faculty and celebrate graduations. As users in one time zone go to bed, others who are just waking up begin to read and tweet, creating a 24/7/365 live global online conference. We encourage others to plug into the power of Twitter, the network that never sleeps.
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- Sanjay Mukhopadhyay
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Loyola University Health System, Maywood, Illinois
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- Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Pathology, St. Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Loyola University Health System, Maywood, Illinois
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Heitkamp NM, Morgan LE, Carmody JB, Heitkamp DE. Pediatric Program Directors Should Have an Active Presence on Twitter. Acad Pediatr 2021; 21:201-204. [PMID: 33227535 DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2020.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Revised: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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For academic pediatricians, social media has become an important avenue for professional development through continuing education, professional networking, and academic collaboration. Pediatric residency program directors have recognized additional benefits of social media engagement via program promotion and resident recruitment. The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and subsequent move to virtual interviews for the 2020-2021 residency interview season have created a new urgency for pediatric program directors to establish an active social media presence, primarily as a means to engage applicants and provide them with information in lieu of cancelled away rotations and in-person interviews. Twitter is a free microblogging and social networking platform that allows real-time engagement among academic pediatricians. Here, we make the case that all pediatric program directors should have an active presence on Twitter.
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- Nicholas M Heitkamp
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children (NM Heitkamp, LE Morgan), Indianapolis, Ind
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children (NM Heitkamp, LE Morgan), Indianapolis, Ind
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- Department of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School (JB Carmody), Norfolk, Va
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- Department of Radiology, AdventHealth Medical Group (DE Heitkamp), Orlando, Fla.
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El Hussein S, Khoury JD, Lyapichev KA, Tashakori M, Khanlari M, Miranda RN, Kanagal-Shamanna R, Wang SA, Ahmed A, Mirza KM, Crane GM, Medeiros LJ, Loghavi S. Next-Generation Scholarship: Rebranding Hematopathology Using Twitter: The MD Anderson Experience. Mod Pathol 2021; 34:854-861. [PMID: 33219298 PMCID: PMC7678590 DOI: 10.1038/s41379-020-00715-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 10/18/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Hematopathologists are witnessing very exciting times, as a new era of unsurpassed technological advances is unfolding exponentially, enhancing our understanding of diseases at the genomic and molecular levels. In the evolving field of precision medicine, our contributions as hematopathologists to medical practice are of paramount importance. Social media platforms such as Twitter have helped facilitate and enrich our professional interactions and collaborations with others in our field and in other medical disciplines leading to a more holistic approach to patient care. These platforms also have created a novel means for instantaneous dissemination of new findings and recent publications, and are proving to be increasingly useful tools that can be harnessed to expand our knowledge and amplify our presence in the medical community. In this Editorial, we share our experience as hematopathologists with Twitter, and how we leveraged this platform to boost scholarly activities within and beyond our subspecialty, and as a powerful medium for worldwide dissemination of educational material and to promote our remote teaching activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Siba El Hussein
- Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
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- grid.240145.60000 0001 2291 4776Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- grid.240145.60000 0001 2291 4776Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- grid.240145.60000 0001 2291 4776Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- grid.240145.60000 0001 2291 4776Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- grid.240145.60000 0001 2291 4776Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- grid.240145.60000 0001 2291 4776Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- grid.240145.60000 0001 2291 4776Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- grid.241054.60000 0004 4687 1637Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR USA
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- grid.470420.50000 0004 0443 7488Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Loyola University Health System, Maywood, IL USA
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- grid.239578.20000 0001 0675 4725Robert J. Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH USA
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- grid.240145.60000 0001 2291 4776Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
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Giménez-Llort L. An Ethnography Study of a Viral YouTube Educational Video in Ecuador: Dealing With Death and Grief in Times of COVID-19. Front Psychiatry 2021; 12:648569. [PMID: 34305667 PMCID: PMC8299051 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.648569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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In Western societies, death is a social and educational taboo. Poor education about death and mourning processes and overprotective family and social attitudes move children away from death to avoid "unnecessary suffering." The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted these shortcomings and the difficult management of grief's complexity under sudden and unexpected scenarios. The need for immediate and constant updates related to COVID-19 benefited from social media coverage's immediacy. The use of YouTube as a digital platform to disseminate/search for knowledge exploded, raising the need to conduct ethnographic studies to describe this community's people and culture and improve the booming social media's educational capacity and quality. The present virtual ethnography studied 255,862 YouTube views/users and their behavior related to "Vuela Mariposa, Vuela," a children's story available online since 2009 (not monetized) about the cycle of life, death, and disenfranchised grief (not acknowledged by society) that went viral (+>999%) on May. To our knowledge, this case study is the first original research that explores the ethnography of (i) a viral video, (ii) on death and grief taboo topics, (iii) for prescholars, and (iv) before and during the COVID pandemic. The quantitative and qualitative analyses identified a change in the users' profiles, engagement, and feedback. During the previous 11 years, the users were 35-44 years old Mexican and Spanish women. Those in grief used narrative comments to explain their vital crisis and express their sorrow. In the pandemic, the analysis pointed to Ecuador as the virality geographical niche in a moment when the tragic scenarios in its streets were yet unknown. The timeline match with the official records confirmed the severity of their pandemic scenario. The viral video reached a broad population, with normal distribution for age, and including male gender. Engagement by non-subscribers, direct search (traffic sources), and mean visualization times suggested educational purposes as confirmed by the users' feedback with critical thinking referring to the cycle of life's meaning and societal mourning. For the youngest users, the video was part of academic assignments. The ethnography pointed at YouTube as a flexible education resource, immediately reaching diverse users, and being highly sensitive to critical events.
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- Lydia Giménez-Llort
- Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Histopathology departments have adapted to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic by a variety of changes including working pattern alterations, technology adoptions and incorporation of techniques. This article summarizes these adaptations and provides references to guide pathologists through the continuing pandemic.
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- Tim Bracey
- Consultant Pathologist and Peninsula Clinical Lead, Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, The NHS Pathology Centre, Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK.,Diploma Health Research Consultant Pathologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and University of Birmingham, UK.,Consultant Gynaecological Pathologist, Department of Cellular Pathology, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK
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- Consultant Pathologist and Peninsula Clinical Lead, Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, The NHS Pathology Centre, Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK.,Diploma Health Research Consultant Pathologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and University of Birmingham, UK.,Consultant Gynaecological Pathologist, Department of Cellular Pathology, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK
| | - Angela Mercy Ralte
- Consultant Pathologist and Peninsula Clinical Lead, Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, The NHS Pathology Centre, Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK.,Diploma Health Research Consultant Pathologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and University of Birmingham, UK.,Consultant Gynaecological Pathologist, Department of Cellular Pathology, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK
| | - Abeer M Shaaban
- Consultant Pathologist and Peninsula Clinical Lead, Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, The NHS Pathology Centre, Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK.,Diploma Health Research Consultant Pathologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and University of Birmingham, UK.,Consultant Gynaecological Pathologist, Department of Cellular Pathology, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK
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- Consultant Pathologist and Peninsula Clinical Lead, Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, UK.,Consultant Pathologist, The NHS Pathology Centre, Northern Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK.,Diploma Health Research Consultant Pathologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and University of Birmingham, UK.,Consultant Gynaecological Pathologist, Department of Cellular Pathology, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK
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